Google carry on its battle with
Facebook with the next update for its phones
operating system removing users' Facebook contacts.
Google said it took the action because it was no longer willing to exempt Facebook from its data-sharing rules.
The new operating system applies to the
Gingerbread version of Google's
Android mobile OS which is only avaliable for the Nexus S and the Nexus One
handsets .
Other Android based handsets are expected to make the move to the new Gingerbread OS avaliable in the coming months.
Facebook's Android
app allowed users to populate the phone's address book with Facebook contancts identical to the Facebook app on the
iPhone .
However, Google did not accept this as the data could not be exported from the
handset, instead it was controlled by Facebook.